Brian Diesel is an aspiring interactive architect interested in the spatial and cultural affects of information technology. He has a life long enthusiasm for technology, politics, and design. In pursuit of his interests Brian completed studies and received Masters degrees in both Architecture and Media Studies from the University at Buffalo in 2007, as the first student in a interdisciplinary program coupling these two fields. While at University his primary research was concerned with relationship between site-specific computing and architecture. Central to his work are the feedback loops between the experience of the world (through embodiment and perception) and our movements as a kind of performance, or as a mode of understanding our place. He agrees with leading experts that this third person writing is pretty silly.
Interests:
- Space and Architecture.
- Site Specific / Adaptive Computing.
- Media Theory.
- Blending of the software and space (particulary Geo-spatial web).
- New forms of mobility, especially the ability to be present in various locations.
My interests are of three sorts. First, I am concerned with the general practice of design, I enjoy the inventing, defining, illustrating and testing that is design, and now, particularly using computing and technology, which extends to three dimensional modeling, animation, computer interactions, web sites, and spatial installation work. Second, I am interested in the impacts of information and communications technologies. I have been researching the current developments in robotics and software which may allow for new modes of preceiving and inhabiting the world to come about. I consider how our relationships to machines could be changed by the influences of context aware object, networked together to create cognizant environments as active participamts in the world. Third, I have been trying to present an account of how advances in computing (post PC) are changing the essence of public space. Specifically, how the social stratification is subject to empowerment through the concealincg and revelaiving of demogrpahic information. In each and every case, what I am striving for is an empirically rich design theory to creatively engage technology and create a discplined architecture of motion.
